The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-07-21

prohibition.
Ans. Is your sentiment up to it?
What comfort to temperance men
that liquor fellows do not say down to
Prohibition.
In offering the objection it is ac-
knowledged that prohibition is nigh
er ground morally, socially and po-
than all other so called tenn
perance laws on the statute books
Let us say here that law is not for the |
good citizen in one sense.
II men were all honest what use for
law against stealing. If all were
prohibitionist whdt use for lars
against the saloon. Do you suppose
public sentiment was up to this law
"Thou shalt not bear false witness"
when God gave it from Sinai?
Law educates people to the proper
standard.
18th. Prohibition does not prohibit
Ans. This is mere gush that whis-
kyites use to catch people who do not
know the simple history of our coun-
try. If it does not prohibit why are
whisky men so opposed to the law?
Here is a question-does license
regulate?
When the license system was
adopted aboat seventy-fve years ago
the traffic was weak. Under its foster
ing care it now almost controls our
government politically and there is
hardly home where it has not
wrought some rain. Dorm wih the
liquor tortic.
eth. l drink little myself.
Ans. This is not a question OF to-
tai abstinence as to yourself but
whether you want rum seller to fill
your boys half pint bottle every time
he goes to town and whether you be-
lieve the traffic as Il whole is a bless
ing to your state.
9th. The men whO get drunk ought
to be punished.
Ans. Drunkenness is a disease.
Would you pound man on the
head with stick to cure him of &
fever?
The man who will sell strong drink
and then beat the man for drinking
is meaner than we want to express. 4
cote against the amendment IS a rot
to sell runt.
Hh. tits moral question.
Ans. So is stealing, murder, rob
! berry, &c. but we make laws prohibiting
them with several penalties attach
ed.
Sth. It's sumptuary lar.
Ans. If it is so also are the law
against diseased meat, gambling an
, prostitution. You must think you
neighber has started to the asylum
3 when you approach him with this OF
y lection.
9th. The drug stores cW sell 1t.
Ans. Yes, under restriction the
{ would any other poison.
Z The amendment prohibits the sal
: as a beverage. Law will regulate tn
sale as medicine.
= Treating will be dead Boys wi
be safe from the cursed attractions {
= the bar room.
I, 10th. II wiH destroy personal HbeY
p" ty.
Ans. Let us ask the man VIII
" brings this objection if he knows tn
IL difference between person at libert
:, and civil liberty, do you?
~ Full personal liberty is the privileg
to do wrong Civil liberty is prote
. ton in doing right. Guiteau's persol
10 al liberty murdered our beloved pres
~ dent Civil liberty hanged IL
- wretch. Personal liberty men want Il
10 privilege to murder either for fan
or money. Are you of them? Spea
30 out
% Fellow citizens let us ask again
Nv we did at the beginning. What shs
So the state do with the liquor traffic?
~ According to the number OF vote
{ will not Tennessee give greater m
IL jority of men who will stand for Il
u home, school and church, as oppos
~ to the saloon, than any state yet in t
e- prohibition list We are guilty of co
40 ardice and injustice five fail to a
no up to our convictions.
Vi All that is asked is full and fl
~ investigation of questions that W
~. ~. come up in this campaign, follow 0
~ judgment, vote honestly dilligent
eS keep in good humor. People W
'o- are wrong get mad, the right h
es, nothing to fear,
m Respectfully Submitted,
NV JAMES A. TATE
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